CYMASCOPE – MUSIC MADE VISIBLE

MusicMadeVisible - An exciting new way to enjoy and study music

This music video features Debussy’s Clair de Lune, beautifully played by Daniel Levy and rendered visible with the CymaScope. This new scientific instrument transposes music’s vibrations to the visual realm, revealing astoundingly beautiful imagery that is not computer generated but the result of a physical process in which music leaves a vibrational imprint on pure water. Just as fingerprints on glass are revealed by a dusting of fine powder, the normally invisible vibrations within music are rendered visible by ‘dusting’ the CymaScope’s water membrane with light. In this way, the energy patterns within music’s vibrations are revealed as a new form of artistic expression called MusicMadeVisible, which is both beautiful to behold and provides a new way to enjoy and study music.

2018 is the 100th anniversary of Debussy's passing and the CymaScope team decided to honor his life and genius with release of this full length version of his much-loved 'Clair de Lune', made visible with a CymaScope instrument. This exciting new technology imprints music onto the surface and sub surface of pure water, rendering beautiful music as beautiful geometry. The resulting imagery is not the commonly seen 'visualizer' patterns created by a computer. The quasi-3D imagery you will see is literally the music made visible for you to enjoy, with your sight and your hearing. The gifted concert pianist is Daniel Levy. All audible sounds are bubble-like in form as they leave a musical instrument or someone's mouth. The CymaScope instrument images a cross section through the ever-changing and shimmering sonic bubble, as seen in this video. Many people believe that Clair de Lune has healing qualities and this year, Debussy's sublime music will be put to the test.

The CymaScope team have arranged to conduct a series of tests in which human blood will be exposed to various genres of music and selected single tones, to test Pythagoras' belief that music can be a form of medicine. We hypothesise that human blood cells will live longer when exposed to certain soundscapes, versus control samples of blood with no sound. The experiments are a joint collaboration between GreenMedInfo.com, Roadmusic.co and CymaScope.com. The experiments will be overseen by biochemist, Professor Sungchul Ji, of Rutgers University. To follow this exciting journey of discovery, which may be an important contribution to science and medicine, please visit the music-blood Experiment.com page:

https://experiment.com/projects/can-music-influence-the-longevity-of-human-blood-cells 


 

MUSIC MADE VISIBLE APP

The CymaScope app is the world’s first app to make the geometry of piano sounds and music visible. The imagery you will see is not a computer simulation; all the beautiful imagery in the app was created on a physical CymaScope then stored in digital memory for you to enjoy.

This app is ideal for everyone who enjoys seeing and learning about the relationship between sound and form.